Yesterday in Venice: Five Grand Prize Winners Revealed

Newsletter — November 2025

Yesterday in Venice, our global community gathered for the celebration of 20 winners and announcement of the five Regional Grand Prize winners of the Holcim Foundation Awards 2025.

Last updated: November 22, 2024 Venice, Italy

This year, we evolved our Prize structure. Rather than ranking projects as Gold, Silver, and Bronze, we celebrated all 20 winners equally—then used Regional Grand Prizes to spotlight those demonstrating the most impactful approaches to sustainable and regenerative design in each region.

All 20 winners share a prize pool of USD 1 million and receive USD 40,000 each. The five Regional Grand Prize winners receive an additional USD 40,000, bringing their total to USD 80,000.

Meet the Grand Prize Winners

The 2025 Holcim Awards Grand Prize winners exemplify a growing global movement to design with, rather than against, communities and ecosystems. From high-tech material circularity to vernacular restoration, each winner presents a hopeful blueprint for building in a more resilient and inclusive manner. 

As the Holcim Foundation’s Venice ceremony affirmed, sustainable design and construction have truly come of age - and these five visionary projects are leading the way.

A Celebration of All 20 Winners

While five projects received Grand Prizes, yesterday was a celebration of all 20 winners—each representing excellence in sustainable construction, each offering replicable and implementable solutions.

From an intimate 200-square-meter school in a Kenyan forest to mega-scale urban regeneration in Madrid and Shenzhen, these projects demonstrate that sustainable design works at every scale, in every context.

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